Supporting-rack.



J. G. LENHART.

SUPPORTING BACK.

APPLmATmN HLEDJAN-3-1912,

Patented Sept. 1, 1914.

No4/mu,

UNT'EE STATES lTENiif Q'ifliihii JOHAN'G. LEN'HAETQOF BELLNGHM, W'ASHINGTON.-

SUPP() BEING-RACK.

Specieation of 'Letters atent.

Patontedept. 1,1914.

Application-filed January 3, H512. Serial Ho. 669,183.

l i i i l i i l l l tures n' device for attachment to henting' pipes und provided with ndinstable rack; members extending outwardly to snpport wet Clothes and the like. preferably snpported adjacent the hentinT pipe for' theg -purpose of dryingr the same.

For the purpose mentioned, use is unido oi a bruid mounted to encircle :1 heating pipe and rigidly supported thereby and n series of relatively offset lin'nges formed integrally with the said bund and adapted to receive the inner ends-'of hook members. the inentionedihook members being held in support.- ingr position by the said flanges and monnted to swing relatively to the heating pipe.

Iii-.the accompanying drawings Figure ll is :L perspective view of the .heating pipe. showing my device nttaehed thereto. Fig. Q is an enlarged vertical sectional View taken -on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is n plan View of the band, the hook members heineY removed therefrom.

Referring more-particularly to the views, I provide n. band 10 mounted to eneirrle :i heating` pipe 11, the ends of the hand being bent to fornrenrs l2 provided with :ipertnres adapted to reeeive n bolt i3 therethrough, on which is threndeflly mounted n nut 14, the said nntbeing preferably provided With s squared portion l5 adapted to abut against the outer :aide of the band l() to prevent any turning of the nut so that. when the bolt is screwed up on the nut, the

.band 10' will be bound'to the heating pipe H and supported thereby.

At spaced distances portions of the hand V10 nre bent to form curved plates ltl, 17, the plates 16 being 'struck outwardly und offset from the upper portion of :the band and the pistes 17 being struck inwardly and ofiset from the lower portion of the band, en opening 18 being` provided between each of the adjacent plates 16, i? to receive a'bentend 19 of hooi: member 21'), provided ai; its other end with an integral head Q1, the free end o1" the hook 1f? being adapted to abut against the plete 17 und the ortion of the hook nt he point of bending being adapted to abut i inst the plate 1, it being readily seen by referring to the figures that the plates 16, i7 nre offsetrom the vertical pinne of the bund so that the opening between the plates will lie in the plz-.ne of the it will also be seen that. when the:- hook uwmbers 20 are mounted as mentioned,

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the suine. rnn he swung to various angles relatively to the band and with the provision of the device described, Wet ,Clothes can nel hung: adjacent the heating pipe 11:50 that the heut from the'pipe will quickly dry the clothes. i

lt will be noted that' the plates 1G are spaced :x suflieient distance away from the' plates i? :ind the hand il) to permit of turning the rods from n normal horizontnl position iis shown in Fig. l into an upright position when the rods are not innse and it will be apparent that when the rods are swung into :in upright position as mentioned and dropped, they will-he supported by the hond 2i engaging the outwardly struck plates l5.

The band l) is .preferably forme-d of im .integral piece of iexible ribbon-like metal and the hook members 20 nre shaped 'similar to wire nails with the exception that the. inner ends thereof are. bent at :approximately rightnngles to the body portion of the-hook members.

I rlaimtv supporting rack for use on stove pipes or other like supports of n band encircling vthe support of the stove pipe with the band provided at spaced points with upper and lower semi-tubular portions strnrlt therefrom in vertical elinenient, the upper semitubular portions beiner ontturned and the lower sensi-tubular portions being intnrned to form vertical openings in the band and l supportin movable t erein with the inner end of each band at right angles with its body, the said upper semi-tubular portions of the band being spaced from the lower semi-tubular portions of the band to permit the said right angle portion of the arm to be turned therearms carried by the band and to an upright position.

in for adjusting the arms from n horizontal l0 In testimony whereof I aflix my Signature 1n presence of two witnesses.

JOHAN G. Llh Yl I ART Witnesses: r.

V. I. BRODWAY, E. J. MULLINDER. 

